Type-bar.



P. H. RICHARDS.

TYPE BAR.

APILIOATION FILED AUG. 7, 1902.

Patented May 17,1910.

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FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TU AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

TYPE-BAR.

Patented May 17, 1910.

Application filed August 7, 1902. Serial No. 118,758.

. T all whom it may concern:

. ed for the construction of type-forms.

Be. it known that l, FRANCIS II. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United Statcs, residing at .llartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have inrented certain new and useful Improvements in'Typc-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to typebars having impression faces or characters formed thereon.

The present invention relates in particular to typebars bearing characters, and more especially printing types, made from a blank of proper material; such a series forming a line of types which may constitute the printing portion of a typcbar adapted for use in the typographic art.

An object of this invention is to provide a form of typebar particularly adapted to the formation of types thereon, from or on relatively thin typedormablc material. Such bars will be of suitable form dimensionally adapted to have types or characters formed thereon, and will be furnished with bodies which may be integral llltlUWlll) and adapt;-

The bodies will be dimensionally sull'iciontfor the purpose last mentioned, and will each have a. relatively thin flange or member projecting angularly therefrom on which the types will be formed; in which form of typcbar provision will be made for supporting the type bearing flange of one typebar upon the body of a contacting typebar when said bars are in use, and the bodies of such typcba rs may be of equal thickness throughout, or they may be of reduced thickness in parts, either transversely or longittulimilly.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2, respectively, are a top plan view and a front elevation of an angle-typebar; hi". 3 is a vertical transverse section thereof, on a larger scale, a part of the wider member thereof being broken out; and Fig. 4; is a perspective view of a number of said typcbars wt up with interposed blocks, parts of each being broken out, and a betore-mentioned modification of a typcbar and block being shown at :13, an.

In Fig. l, angle-typcbars and blocks of d i fi'crent proportional dimensions are shown the wider members of the typcbars B, extending nearly to the bottom of the typeform, and the interposed blocks 6, being adapted to contact all of the inter-angular space in said typebars; while the widermember of the bar 0;, as shown, is much narrower, and a complemental otl'sct or pr0jection :11, on the interposed block w, supplements the wider member of the typebar at the lower partoi the form and thus provides for the proper locking of the latter. In the last mentioned form of construction an unoccupied space 3 may intervene between the projection w, and the typebar. In some instances, and more especially Where the typebars may be required for transient use only, the latter form of construction may be the more desirable, as less material would be required to form the typebars; this form of type would require less material for its construction, and a larger proportion of the" material would be permanently retained in a form adapted to lie repeatedly used.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. A type'bar embodying a support, a type taco of sheet metal having upon it a line of spaced apart and properly related typographic composition, said type face being adapted to rest upon the top of said support and having dependent from its longitudinal edge a flange extending down the side of the support nearly to the bottom thereof.

2. A typographic form embodying a plurality of supports approximating in Width the height of a line of composition, of a series of sheet metal members each approximating in length a line of composition and having upon it a line of spaced apart and properly related typographic composition and each resting upon the top of a support, each of said members carrying at one edge a longitudinally disposed flange extending over the side of the support upon which its type face carrying member rests, said flanges being of slightly less height than the height of the supports and being located in position between the side faces-of the supports substantially as and for the purposes specilied.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS Witnesses: 

